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Steven Pinker’s message in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, is explosive. Reaching back to the beginnings of human history and exhaustively and compellingly tracing the naked ape’s behavior over millennia, he shows convincingly that “this is a good time to be a potential victim.” Pinker is the …
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